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History Quotes


"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."

Full 'Max Eastman' Quote   Source: Max Eastman
"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the"

Full 'John Maynard Keynes' Quote   Source: John Maynard Keynes
"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections."

Full 'Washington Irving' Quote   Source: Washington Irving
"Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather."

Full 'Ilka Chase' Quote   Source: Ilka Chase
"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."

Full 'Martin Luther' Quote   Source: Martin Luther
"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."

Full 'Benito Mussolini' Quote   Source: Benito Mussolini
"--from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient...."

Full 'Carl Sagan' Quote   Source: Carl Sagan
"because Jesus was the greatest changer in history...."

Full 'Ralph Abernathy' Quote   Source: Ralph Abernathy
"said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit...."

Full 'Matthew Arnold' Quote   Source: Matthew Arnold
"Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic"

Full 'Ayn Rand' Quote   Source: Ayn Rand
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work..."

Full 'Robert Kennedy' Quote   Source: Robert Kennedy
"Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural..."

Full 'Francis Bacon' Quote   Source: Francis Bacon
"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."

Full 'Anatole France' Quote   Source: Anatole France
"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."

Full 'Dwight D Eisenhower' Quote   Source: Dwight D Eisenhower
"History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented..."

Full 'Alfred Kazin' Quote   Source: Alfred Kazin
"History is a capricious character. It depends on who writes it."

Full 'Mikhail Gorbachev' Quote   Source: Mikhail Gorbachev
"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions."

Full 'Ted Koppel' Quote   Source: Ted Koppel
"History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy."

Full 'James Garfield' Quote   Source: James Garfield
"History is full of extraordinary events, some of which may actually"

Full 'John McAfee' Quote   Source: John McAfee
"History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes."

Full 'Voltaire' Quote   Source: Voltaire
"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We..."

Full 'Henry Ford' Quote   Source: Henry Ford
"History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its..."

Full 'Karl Marx' Quote   Source: Karl Marx
"History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other"

Full 'Louis Farrakhan' Quote   Source: Louis Farrakhan
"History is sympathetic to those who write it"

Full 'John McAfee' Quote   Source: John McAfee
"History is the devil's scripture."

Full 'George Byron' Quote   Source: George Byron
"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."

Full 'Konrad Adenauer' Quote   Source: Konrad Adenauer
"History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent"

Full 'Paul Eldridge' Quote   Source: Paul Eldridge
"History is written by the winners."

Full 'Alex Haley' Quote   Source: Alex Haley
"History never looks like history when you are living through it."

Full 'John Gardner' Quote   Source: John Gardner
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Full 'George Byron' Quote   Source: George Byron
"History repeats itself, says the proverb, but that is precisely what it..."

Full 'Clement Rogers' Quote   Source: Clement Rogers
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

Full 'Winston Churchill' Quote   Source: Winston Churchill
"However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even..."

Full 'Peter Quennell' Quote   Source: Peter Quennell
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and"

Full 'H. G. Wells' Quote   Source: H. G. Wells
"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."

Full 'H. G. Wells' Quote   Source: H. G. Wells
"knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams..."

Full 'Robert Fulghum' Quote   Source: Robert Fulghum
"on offense against terrorists. I think history will remember him for that...."

Full 'Rudolph Giuliani' Quote   Source: Rudolph Giuliani
"I know of no principle in history more often validated than that which..."

Full 'Robert Nisbet' Quote   Source: Robert Nisbet
"relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums...."

Full 'Christina Aguilera' Quote   Source: Christina Aguilera
"I love this period (1912-TITANIC) in history. If I'd lived then I would..."

Full 'Billy Zane' Quote   Source: Billy Zane
"capacity any country has ever had in history -- the best air forces, the..."

Full 'Tommy Franks' Quote   Source: Tommy Franks
"is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for..."

Full 'Dizzy Gillespie' Quote   Source: Dizzy Gillespie
"to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were..."

Full 'Rosa Parks' Quote   Source: Rosa Parks
"majored in journalism. I would have chosen history, or English, or..."

Full 'Connie Chung' Quote   Source: Connie Chung
"we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so..."

Full 'Joseph Goebbels' Quote   Source: Joseph Goebbels
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each..."

Full 'Henry Wadsworth Longfellow' Quote   Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its..."

Full 'Desiderius Erasmus' Quote   Source: Desiderius Erasmus
"If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always..."

Full 'Albert Camus' Quote   Source: Albert Camus
"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to..."

Full 'Peter F. Drucker' Quote   Source: Peter F. Drucker
"In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The..."

Full 'Newt Gingrich' Quote   Source: Newt Gingrich
"areas of human activity there are two histories -- the popular history,..."

Full 'David Friedman' Quote   Source: David Friedman
"can be sought once you have confronted History?..."

Full 'Charles de Gaulle' Quote   Source: Charles de Gaulle
"achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their..."

Full 'Mary Ritter Beard' Quote   Source: Mary Ritter Beard
"true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are..."

Full 'Robert Orben' Quote   Source: Robert Orben
"Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history...."

Full 'Henry Ford' Quote   Source: Henry Ford
"participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a..."

Full 'Nelson A Rockefeller' Quote   Source: Nelson A Rockefeller
"acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man..."

Full 'Robert Kennedy' Quote   Source: Robert Kennedy
"have been consigned to the bedroom of history."

Full 'Corazon Aquino' Quote   Source: Corazon Aquino
"Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that..."

Full 'Barbara Ward' Quote   Source: Barbara Ward
"Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice"

Full 'Walt Whitman' Quote   Source: Walt Whitman
"Legend remains victorious in spite of history."

Full 'Sarah Bernhardt' Quote   Source: Sarah Bernhardt
"thing to talk about, or to read about in history books -- but it is..."

Full 'Jean Anouilh' Quote   Source: Jean Anouilh
"Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave"

Full 'W. H. Auden' Quote   Source: W. H. Auden
"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to..."

Full 'Woody Allen' Quote   Source: Woody Allen
"selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever"

Full 'Barbara Ehrenreich' Quote   Source: Barbara Ehrenreich
"Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did"

Full 'Jefferson Davis' Quote   Source: Jefferson Davis
"as the piles of dry dust in a school history book...."

Full 'Ellen Glasgow' Quote   Source: Ellen Glasgow
"around. If I don't keep changing. I'm history...."

Full 'Larry Bird' Quote   Source: Larry Bird
"Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out."

Full 'Richard Nixon' Quote   Source: Richard Nixon
"positions and have a tremendous impact on history...."

Full 'George W Bush' Quote   Source: George W Bush
"Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have"

Full 'Charles Dudley Warner' Quote   Source: Charles Dudley Warner
"The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the..."

Full 'Sir Arthur Keith' Quote   Source: Sir Arthur Keith
"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."

Full 'Richard Nixon' Quote   Source: Richard Nixon
"women, like the happiest nations, have no history."

Full 'George Eliot' Quote   Source: George Eliot
"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman."

Full 'Willa Cather' Quote   Source: Willa Cather
"was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's..."

Full 'George W Bush' Quote   Source: George W Bush
"than the human race has in its entire history...."

Full 'Ray Bradbury' Quote   Source: Ray Bradbury
"liberated more people than all the wars in history...."

Full 'Carl Rowan' Quote   Source: Carl Rowan
"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."

Full 'Otto Von Bismarck' Quote   Source: Otto Von Bismarck
"States is the most violent country in the history of civilization is the..."

Full 'Spike Lee' Quote   Source: Spike Lee
"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations..."

Full 'Max Lerner' Quote   Source: Max Lerner
"or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history...."

Full 'H. G. Wells' Quote   Source: H. G. Wells
"The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the..."

Full 'Queen Elizabeth II' Quote   Source: Queen Elizabeth II
"The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the..."

Full 'Mary Ritter Beard' Quote   Source: Mary Ritter Beard
"writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he..."

Full 'Karl Marx' Quote   Source: Karl Marx
"There is nothing to belearned from history anymore. We're in science"

Full 'Allen Ginsberg' Quote   Source: Allen Ginsberg
"This is a moment of hope in history. Why doesn't anybody say so"

Full 'P. J. O'rourke' Quote   Source: P. J. O'rourke
"This is a moment of hope in history. Why doesn't anybody say so."

Full 'P J O'Rourke' Quote   Source: P J O'Rourke
"To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history."

Full 'Alfred Kazin' Quote   Source: Alfred Kazin
"To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith..."

Full 'Herman Hesse' Quote   Source: Herman Hesse
"We [women] belong in history, too. You [men] have stolen us from ourselves...."

Full 'Barbara Deming' Quote   Source: Barbara Deming
"with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain..."

Full 'Timothy Leary' Quote   Source: Timothy Leary
"entering the final phase of a 12-year history of the disarmament of Iraq."

Full 'Tony Blair' Quote   Source: Tony Blair
"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin..."

Full 'R D Laing' Quote   Source: R D Laing
"What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling..."

Full 'Oliver Cromwell' Quote   Source: Oliver Cromwell
"when people point the finger back from history and say: 'You know those..."

Full 'Tony Blair' Quote   Source: Tony Blair
"Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you."

Full 'Nikita Khrushchev' Quote   Source: Nikita Khrushchev
"person living in the Euphrates valley? History is written by the winners:..."

Full 'Garrett Hardin' Quote   Source: Garrett Hardin
"Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their..."

Full 'Peter Abrahams' Quote   Source: Peter Abrahams
"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is"

Full 'Arthur Ashe' Quote   Source: Arthur Ashe